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‘Greenburg’ Proves that Acting Career in ‘Focus’ for Gerwig

Jay and Mark Duplass are in production with a project for Fox Searchlight, and now Greta Gerwig (who has partnered on many Joe Swanberg items) is going to topline what is now a Focus Features comedy helmed by Noah Baumbach. Focus were circling Greenburg for a while now and have finally landed a deal to distribute the pic.

Eric Lavallée

Published on February 10, 2009

I’m sure that there will be others to follow in their footsteps, but the grandfathers and grandmothers (albeit they are in the thirty-something in age) of the Mumblecore movement are slowly finding themselves working in mainstream indie. Jay and Mark Duplass are in production with a project for Fox Searchlight, and now Greta Gerwig (who has partnered on many Joe Swanberg items) is going to topline what is now a Focus Features comedy helmed by Noah Baumbach. Focus were circling Greenburg for a while now and have finally landed a deal to distribute the pic.

The Gotham girl next door blonde will play alongside Ben Stiller and she will most likely making mental notes on how Baumbach goes about directing her. She made her directing debut with Nights and Weekends.

Shooting begins next month.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Current top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson).